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Of all the gaming brands, it's fair to say that Tetris and Super Mario can both stand proud as two of the most instantly recognisable. They're practically synonymous with the medium, and it's clear ...
Toyo Securities' Hideki Yasuda believes that the Switch 2 is being sold at a loss, because of tariffs and manufacturing costs ...
Rogers tells PC Gamer he was "good friends" with Game Boy designer Gunpei Yokoi since, after all, "I helped him launch Game Boy and he helped me launch Tetris. So that was a mutual thing. But I was a ...
standing as the most "influential" Rogers says the instruction to create Dr. Mario as a competitor to Tetris came from late Nintendo CEO Hiroshi Yamauchi, who "tried to buy Tetris" outright.
A candid chat with The Tetris Company's own Henk Rogers, discussing the inspiration behind the book and movie that make up ...
"So then Yamauchi calls in [Hiroshi] Imanishi. Imanishi was number two, the Managing Director. Yamauchi said 'Imanishi, I want you to put the Nintendo Seal of Approval on this game. And also I ...
The Nintendo Tetris, you control the block as ... My wife found out that Hiroshi Yamauchi played Go, reading a magazine article. I sent them a fax on a Tuesday. “My name is Henk Rogers.